Kevin Kietzman Has Issues

   At his State of the City address, Mayor Q pledges he will reach an agreement with the Royals this year to build a downtown stadium.  If he pulls it off, this will be great for KC.
   Mizzou wins in a wild one at A&M and suddenly anything feels possible.  Meanwhile, Jerome Tang melts down after losing by 29 at a game the students wore paper bags over their heads.
   The Olathe School district, already mired in a cesspool of negative stories, is asking for $389 million in a sham mail in vote.  Don't tell them no.  Tell them hell no!
   KCMO radio's Pete Mundo has received a tremendous national honor as having one of the top shows in America.  Bobby Witt Jr has brought his puppy to training camp and you can follow on the dog's Instagram page.  The Big 12 makes its "major announcement" about a change in KC for the tourney.  The Chiefs make a nice hire for running backs coach.
   ESPN's Seth Greenberg unloads on Darryn Peterson of KU.  We'll play the audio for you.
   And say goodbye to the Obama Button in our Final Final.

   We have absolute chaos on the southern border as the FAA has closed the El Paso airport for the next ten days.  Immediately people speculate the Mexican cartels are prepared to fight back on Trump's crackdown by shooting down airplanes.  
   Also on the border in Arizona, authorities detain a man in Rio Rico to question him about the Nancy Guthrie case.  They released him after 7 hours and is not believed to have any connection and that's a problem.  The man is hispanic and you'd better believe the left is going to go nuts over this.
   Trump gives great economic news and a bold prediction.  A senator from Indiana has started a trucker tipline to turn in companies that hire illegal alien drivers, Cuba has cut off international flights as they are running out of fuel on the island and the death of Curt Cobain has a new theory 32 years later.
  In sports, the Royals reported to Surprise, Arizona and much to our surprise, a reputable firm has predicted the Royals winning the division.   The Rangers have the most awesome retro jersey giveway ever later this year and an olympian wins a media and begs forgiveness from his girlfriend on live tv.
   Our Final Final is about teenage golfer Charlie Woods who has big shoes to fill.  He's decided where he's playing college golf.

   We use the word "history" way too much in sports media.  But Monday night was historic at Allen Field House over the most dramatic regular season three hours in years.  We got a sad little whiny superstar sitting out sick, a staffer on press row texting that Darryn Peterson said, "Eff it" to playing and a wildly enthusiastic Bill Self after knocking off the number one team in the country.  Oh, this made up for all the lack of fun at Super Bowl 60.
  Big 12 commissioner Brett Yormark was at the game and says big changes are coming to the Big 12 tourney.  Are they about to pay players for performance?
   Bad Bunny's halftime show would NEVER have been allowed in English, that's for sure.  So why doesn't the FCC  go after the NFL/NBC hard for all the violations in Spanish.  It could be happening.
   175,000 KC residents are now eligible to get their Amazon packages delivered by drones from KCK.  Americans gobbled up a record amount of been in 2025.  Kid Rock hits #1 on the charts while a lesser known artist records an anti-Sprinsteen song for the ages.
  The Royals do the cheapest thing ever and a small plane lands on traffic filled road in Georgia and the pilot must have been very hungry.

   It was a rough weekend for patriotic Americans if you turned on your tv to watch the Olympics or the Super Bowl.   What used to be events that showcase the excellence and pride of the greatest nation in history were anything but that this year as it seems people just want to hate the country Trump leads.
   The Kansas Jayhawks phoned in a win over Utah on Saturday and now host the undefeated, #1 team in the country Monday night and we all know how this will go.
   At just 34 years old, former Royal Terrence Gore passes away from complications during what was supposed to be a routine surgery.  The Super Bowl was a bad game and the halftime show was even worse.  It was clearly an NFL season to forget for Kansas Citians.

   Before we tackle the big game, we ask Stan what the Chiefs can learn from watching the Seahawks and Patriots and how they got here for Super Bowl 60.  His answer will surprise you, not because it's detailed and thorough.  It's because it involves asking Patrick Mahomes to be different kind of quarterback as we start KC 2.0.
   As you may know, Stan famously created a mathematic, interesting and fun board game decades ago that plugs in an entire season's stats so he can play teams against each other with his friends the entire off season.  He's played a bunch of games between Seattle and New England and he will share his results.
   As analyst for the K-State Network, Stan has been courtside for most of the really good teams in the Big 12 and he will rank them in order for us.  Spoiler... KU is really climbing.
   And he shares what it will take for the Missouri Tigers to make the NCAA Tourney.

   NBC Today Show anchor Savannah Guthrie, along with her brother and sister, recorded and released a video where they appeal to possible kidnappers that they are willing to listen about a ranson for their mom Nancy, but they need proof of life.  It was one of the most real, raw, shocking and heartbreaking videos you've ever seen in your life.  This story had all the markings of being historic right from the beginning and it has now captured the attention of an entire nation.
  President Trump called Savannah Guthrie and told her he is throwing the full support of all federal agencies into the investigation as it appears authorities at all levels believe there is a chance Nancy is still alive.  This could be so many things.
   In sports, I've got one player that is more important than any other in Sunday's Super Bowl and have some some easy to understand numbers that back it up.
  Then, are you ready for some silly and fun action at your watch party?  Lee Sterling is here to help us out from the national anthem time to passing yards for qb's.  Only the Super Bowl.
  And our Final Final is a building being torn down that matters a great deal to my family.

   The Olathe City Council approved a 165 acre area for a local STAR bond district to be the new corporate home and practice facility for the Kansas City Chiefs.  This was a no-brainer for Olathe.  Officials held a meeting in WYCO as well on Tuesday and will vote to approve their local area for STAR bonds on Thursday.  They say it's small and only includes the new Chiefs area.  We'll see how bit the state of Kansas bond district is somewhere down the road.
   It's ticking me off that KSU media and fans are just now on board with what I told them three years ago... Jerome Tang is an awful basketball coach.  Nothing personal, I wouldn't be any good at it either.  But with an $18 million buyout, these people are focusing on the wrong man. AD Gene Taylor is the person that should be fired and they should cut off all funding to Tang and let him lose horribly for at least another year.  Oh, I've got the right plan for KSU but who knows if anyone in charge is ballsy enough to pull the trigger. And all the KSU media types that have ripped me for three years over this... I accept your apology.
   It wouldn't be Super Bowl week without a grandpa Mahomes alcohol arrest, a Lions fan seems to have a legitimate lawsuit against a whole bunch of people that have given him the Jussie Smollet treatment.  There's a crime podcaster reporting a new break in the Nancy Guthrie mystery.  Chris Cuomo comes clean on complete botching his Covid coverage and a new steakhouse is coming to KC that I'm betting is a better night out than 1587.
 

   The mystery around the abduction of Nancy Guthrie from her bed while she slept sounds worse with every passing hour.  NBC's Savanah Guthrie has released a statement of hope even as authorities say they found blood and signs of a struggle in the home.  We don't know a motive and they haven't named a person of interest.  This is awful.
   A whole bunch of singers said crazy things about ICE and such at the GRAMMY Awards Sunday but one in particular stands out as the dumbest.  Now she may get visitors to her house taking her up on her offer that there are no borders and nobody is illegal on any property.  This could get good.
  Dan Bongino returns to podcasting and made a statement that's as lame as his work at the FBI.
   In sports, the Royals have a new tv deal that should work out for you.  KU is rolling as Darryn Peterson drops two huge three pointers at the end of the game at Tech.  But Flory was the story of this one as KU's defense is just ridiculous right now.  Watch out for this team!
   Mizzou has two McDonald's All Americans for the first time.  Kelvin Sampson laments the current rules of transfer and NIL, Roger Goodell is asked about Bad Bunny playing halftime and former Royal Chris Getz is now GM of the White Sox and announces an interesting change he made in the plumbing of the team's locker room.  It's our Final Final and you have to hear this.

   So much buildup and so little sizzle as Mayor Q is a panelist on CBS Face the Nation and I'm really disappointed.  We were hoping he'd be asked about KC being the per capita homeless capital of America or his police chief declaring "drastic" measures to cutback the force because the budget is whacked.  Instead, he almost got edited out completely.
   The word around the cowtown is the Chiefs will be announcing the exact location of their new stadium this week... we'll tell you where the smart money is.  Meanwhile, the Royals say they will be announcing their decision sooner than later where they are going.
   NBA coach Steve Kerr has been forced to apologize for his outrageous lies about the Trump administration and ICE.  It was real.  But another coach won't back off and is worried ICE will start kidnapping international players and sending them home.  What a fool.
   KU star Darryn Peterson sits again after KU built a huge lead over BYU.  He's healthy for tonight's game so maybe this was something else.  I have a new theory.
   Mark Turgeon is the new basketball coach at Kansas City (UMKC) and this is a great hire.  Goalies throw down at center ice and one of the world's most famous musicians makes a video in the middle of the Tallgrass Prairie reserve in the Flint Hills.

   What if I told you there's a conservative broadcaster that owns his own media company and is seen as a controversial outsider by members of old school, liberal media and politicians?  What if he was the kind of plain spoken truth teller unafraid of what anyone thinks?
    If we aren't talking about your humble host, you'd probably think this would be a really great person to have on KKHI.
   Meet Scott Faughn, publisher of www.themissouritimes.com.  He just purchased three more newspapers in Missouri and has his finger on the pulse of everything going on in the Show-Me state.  He knows the governor well.  And yes, he's a Cardinals fan.  You may even hear us spar over the 1985 World Series a smidge.  But we also talk about no income tax, the state of life in KC vs. St. Louis and Trump's tariffs upsetting Missouri farmers.   You're going to enjoy this one